Wow. Dig this totally beautiful graphic! It’s a graphic representation of how the Code Red computer virus spread throughout the Internet. Some geeks at the University of California pulled it together; it’s printed in the White House’s otherwise almost unreadably-dull “National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace” comment paper.

When I showed it to a friend on a discussion board, he asked: “Are you sure it’s not a lung getting emphysema?” Which is, of course, precisely the point: It’s the Internet getting emphysema.

(Side note: this graphic is so huge it is temporarily stretching the column size of my blog horizontally, but I’m kind of digging the look.)